The expected value under the Yule model of the squared path-difference distance

DOI10.1016/J.AML.2012.04.013zbMATH Open1388.92022arXiv1203.2503OpenAlexW2963511757MaRDI QIDQ714516FDOQ714516

Authors: Gabriel Cardona, Arnau Mir, Francesc Rosselló 

Publication date: 11 October 2012

Published in: Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The path-difference metric is one of the oldest and most popular distances for the comparison of phylogenetic trees, but its statistical properties are still quite unknown. In this paper we compute the expected value under the Yule model of evolution of its square on the space of fully resolved rooted phylogenetic trees with n leaves. This complements previous work by Steel-Penny and Mir-Rossell'o, who computed this mean value for fully resolved unrooted and rooted phylogenetic trees, respectively, under the uniform distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2503

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zbMATH Keywords

phylogenetic treeSackin indexYule modelnodal distancepath-difference metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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